Intonation contours, prosodic structure and preboundary lengthening
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From Prosodic Structure to Intonation Contours
The design of a set of rules for generating Swedish intonation in a text-to-speech system containing a linguistic preprocessor is presented.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Phonetics
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0095-4470
DOI: 10.1016/s0095-4470(19)30636-9